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Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec: |
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> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: |
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>>> # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> (13 Feb 2013) |
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>>> # No longer licensed for sale upstream. |
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>>> # Masked for removal on 20130315. |
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>>> games-strategy/x2 |
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>>> games-strategy/x2-demo |
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>> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it |
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>> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs? |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Florian Philipp |
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> Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a |
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> local overlay. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml |
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> That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before |
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> removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they |
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> want. |
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> We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ |
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Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one |
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person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the |
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work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in |
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the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty |
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tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that. |
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